The Heavens Rise (34 page)
Authors: Christopher Rice
Tags: #Fiction, #Fantasy, #Paranormal, #Thrillers, #General
I’m incredibly grateful this book found a home with Mitchell Ivers and Louise Burke at Gallery Books, two individuals who have made great contributions to my career as a novelist. With the gentlest of hands, Mitchell guided me through one of the most challenging processes a novelist can face—the total elimination of two major characters I had tried, in vain, to keep alive through various drafts.
I am also profoundly grateful to my attorney, Christine Cuddy, and my film agent, Rich Green at Resolution.
I’m blessed to have over 100,000 Facebook followers and whenever I post anything about my writing, they’re incredibly supportive. According to their various posts, they’ve been waiting for this book for quite a long time; I thank them for their patience and I hope it meets their expectations. I wonder if they’ll let me call them “mind monsters” now.
CHRISTOPHER RICE
is the
New York Times
bestselling author of
A Density of Souls, The Snow Garden, Light Before Day, Blind Fall,
and
The Moonlit Earth.
The son of author Anne Rice and award-winning poet Stan Rice, he lives in Los Angeles, where he is the cohost of the internet radio show,
The Dinner Party Show with Christopher Rice and Eric Shaw Quinn.
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WWW.CHRISTOPHERRICEBOOKS.COM
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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First Gallery Books hardcover edition October 2013
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rice, Christopher, 1979-
The heavens rise / Christopher Rice.—First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
pages cm
1. Teenagers—Louisiana—New Orleans.—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3568.I2717H43 2013
813’.54—dc23
2013014568
ISBN 978-1-4767-1608-4
ISBN 978-1-4767-1610-7 (ebook)